Dear Evan Hansen's Mike Faist has been cast as Riff of the Jets in Fox's Steven Spielberg West Side Story film, according to Deadline. Puerto Rican singer and dancer Ana Isabelle will play Rosalia, a shark who works with Maria and Dance Moms' Maddie Ziegler has been cast as part of the Jets. They have also cast over 40 performers set as Sharks and Jets!
Aguascalientes, Ags.- La Dra. Lucina Jiménez, Directora General del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), en representación de la secretaria de Cultura, Alejandra Frausto, y el Gobernador de Aguascalientes, Martín Orozco Sandoval, firmaron dos convenios de colaboración para impulsar la Red Nacional de Educación e Investigación Artística (Rediartes) que tiene el propósito de fortalecer los planes de estudios escolarizados con escuelas asociadas, además de entrelazar los procesos formativos comunitarios y de capacitación con la infraestructura educativa y cultural local que incluya el intercambio artístico como parte de la política de promoción de los derechos culturales a través de la educación artística en esta entidad.
Regent's Park Theatre have today announced principal casting for their productions of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar, alongside the full creative team for Evita.
The producers of the 2019 UK and Ireland tour and first new production in 25 years of Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey's iconic musical GREASE are delighted to announce that Dan Partridge, Martha Kirby, Louis Gaunt and Rhianne-Louise McCaulsky will star as Danny, Sandy, Kenickie and Rizzo respectively. They join the previously announced Peter Andre playing Teen Angel at most performances.
Sucesso de publico e critica, o espetaculo 'Meu Destino e ser Star, ao som de Lulu Santos', com cerca de 40 sucessos da carreira do cantor e compositor, termina a temporada paulista nesse final de semana, no Teatro Frei Caneca. As ultimas apresentacões acontecem na sexta (12), as 20h, no sabado (13), as 16h e as 20h, e no domingo (14), as 19h. Em seguida, o musical segue em turne nas cidades de Belo Horizonte, Campinas, Florianopolis e Fortaleza. Com direcão geral de Renato Rocha e direcão musical e arranjos de Ze Ricardo, cantor e curador do palco Sunset no festival Rock in Rio, o espetaculo narra a trajetoria de jovens que buscam realizar seus sonhos profissionais e conquistar um grande papel em suas carreiras artisticas.
Pittsburgh CLO will launch its second New Musicals Weekend, a project of the Next Generation Campaign's New Small Musicals Initiative. New Musicals Weekend, the mini version of the SPARK festival, takes the core goals of SPARK and puts them into action over just seven days. New Musicals Weekend aims to develop new musicals for the CLO Cabaret by supporting writing teams with financial and creative resources and by building relationships with local and national artists.
I LOVE LUCY FUNNY MONEY SPECIAL, a new one-hour special featuring two back-to-back colorized episodes of the classic series, will be broadcast Friday, April 19 (8:00-9:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Una mesa que cruza el escenario se transforma en el espacio que evoca la existencia de tres personajes de la región flamenca en la Edad Media. Una gran actriz y dos grandes actores le darán cuerpo a través de su voz, mediante una lectura precisa, abierta y plena de matices, al héroe Ulenspieguel, a su esposa Nele, y al Rey Felipe, que se resisten a dejarse vencer por la vejez, justo cuando su mente y su corazón tienen una dimensión inmensa, como la del elenco de esta propuesta de la CNTeatro, integrado por Farnesio de Bernal, Ana Ofelia Murguía y Gastón Melo, que con dirección de Ricardo Rodríguez, ofrecerá sus últimas dos funciones los martes 9 y 16 de abril a las 20:00 en la Sala Héctor Mendoza, ubicada en Coyoacán.
International famed artist Juan Luis Guerra will be honored with a Billboard Lifetime Achievement Awardin recognition of his outstanding 35-year career at the 2019 Billboard Latin Music Awards. The exciting event will broadcast live on Telemundo Thursday, April 25 at 8pm/7c from Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The prestigious show will also air simultaneously on Spanish-language entertainment cable network, Universo, and throughout the Americas via Telemundo Internacional. Tickets to the event are now on sale at AXS.com, the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino box offices or by calling (702) 632-7777.
Play On Shakespeare in association with Classic Stage Company (CSC) and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) presents the Play on! festival-featuring 39 readings of new, work-in-progress translations of Shakespeare's plays into contemporary modern English by some of today's most exciting playwrights-May 29-June 30 at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at CSC (136 E. 13th Street).In 2015, Oregon Shakespeare Festival launched an ambitious 39-play, three-year commissioning project, Play on!, tasking 36 playwrights-more than half of whom were women and playwrights of color, each paired with a dramaturg-to translate Shakespeare's canon in celebration of the enduring impact of the Bard's work. Supported by a generous grant from the Hitz Foundation and inspired by long-time patron Dave Hitz's passion for Shakespeare, the project was and continues to be led by Lue Morgan Douthit. For more information, visit playonfestival.org.
La relación perfecta entre dos seres que se aman es ideal salvo un pequeño detalle, nunca se han visto en persona, solo en sueños. Esta es la premisa del montaje escrito por Ricardo Zárraga, bajo la dirección de Carlos Corona,Ensueños.
Pittsburgh Public Theater is proud to present the Pittsburgh premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play, Indecent, directed by Carnegie Mellon University graduate Risa Brainin. Indecent runs April 18 - May 19, 2019 at the O'Reilly Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater's home in the heart of Downtown's Cultural District. For tickets call 412.316.1600, go to ppt.org, or visit the Box Office.
Amy Marcs' critically-acclaimed solo comedy gets 'reconstructed' in a special celebrity reading as her roller coaster tale is joined by familiar faces from Broadway & Television including: Geneva Carr (Bull, Hand to God), Laura Kai Chen (HER, Days of Our Lives), Leigh Ann Larken (Gypsy, Blue Bloods), and Elena Ricardo (Beautiful, Mamma Mia). A portion of the proceeds will go to The Actors Fund.
Como parte del ciclo Los colores de la voz, el Ensamble Solistas de Panamá ofrecerá un concierto que llevará al público del Palacio de Bellas Artes a un viaje musical con piezas que comprenden desde el Medioevo hasta el Renacimiento y el Barroco, para finalizar con obras tradicionales del país de la agrupación.
On his day off from appearing as Hermes in the Broadway production of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre, two-time Tony nominee and Emmy winner Andre De Shields headed to the Victoria Theater at NJPAC in Newark to celebrate his company of fabulous singers and dancers under his direction in the Crossroads Theatre Company and NJPAC's co-production of Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. Scroll down for photos from the party.
Long Wharf Theatre, (Jacob G. Padron, Artistic Director and Joshua Borenstein, Managing Director) proudly announces its 55th season beginning October 9, 2019. This season transcends both time and place with stories which speak to our shared humanity and demonstrate our shared connections. It will be an exciting bridge to new Artistic Director Jacob G. Padron's inaugural 2020-2021 season.
The new rock musical, We Are Ameena, will hold an invitation-only, developmental reading, March 28th & 29th, that features award winning actor of stage and screen Harsh Nayyar (A Meeting by the River, An Ordinary Muslim, Gandhi, Hidalgo), alongside Aladdin's Trent Saunders, Stephanie Gibson (Cinderella, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, The Adams Family), Samantha Gershman (Jekyll & Hyde tour), and Victor Verhaeghe (Boardwalk Empire).